Bride of Re-Animator

Seit den schrecklichen Ereignissen an der Miskatonic Medical School sind nun 8 Monate vergangen, und Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) kehrt in sein Kellerlabor zurück, um an seinem ehrgeizigen Projekt weiterzuarbeiten. Widerwillig unterstützt ihn sein Kollege Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) bei seinen Versuchen, totes Gewebe wieder zum Leben zu erwecken. Die Beiden stehlen Körperteile aus der Pathologie, um ein menschliches Wesen aus Leichteilen zusammen zu bauen (Frankenstein läßt grüßen!). Der besondere Clou: dem Versuchsobjekt soll das Herz von Meg, Dan's verstorbener Freundin, eingepflanzt werden... Natürlich geht auch im zweiten Teil von "Re-Animator" so Einiges schief und bald zappeln wildgewordene Zombies durch die Gegend und es fließt viel Blut. Nichts für zartbesaitete Gemüter! Allerdings ist dieser Film auch wesentlich witziger und ironischer als sein Vorgänger (dieses Auge/Finger-Monster ist einfach genial). Ein echtes Muß für Splatter-Fans! weitere Bilder/more pictures

Jeffrey Combs über "Bride of Re-animator":

"I'm generally not a great fan of horror, I like all kinds of films. It's just that this is the train that picked me up, so I'll ride on it. [...] I had a great deal of fun during 'Bride'. There where many laughs, as well as all of the pressures that come whith doing a project like this. It was done on a very intense schedule, and there was a lot of flying by the seat of your pants and winging it. But we had a great time, and I was very pleased with the way it came out. I'm thankfull that there's a lot of humor and that Herbert is still as monomaniacal as ever. [...] In the first movie, it was all about bringing back dead to life, but this one deals with creating a new life, much more along the lines of 'Frankenstein' - finding the parts, matching them and making the best creature that you can given the circumstances. [...] The film begins in Peru, where it turns out that Herbert West and Dan Cain have volunteered to lend medical assistance during this bloody civil war. Of course, their reason for doing this are not just out of the goodness of their hearts - [...] where else will you get such a volume of fresh specimens? [...] But it get's too hot for them; they get overrrun and they have to escape. They go back to Miscatonic [university] with their newfound research and proceed to steal body parts from the hospital in order to create a new creature - a woman - in the basement of this abandoned mortuary that they've rented. But quick on their heels is this detective, whose wife was one of the dead bodies that was reanimated during the Miscatonic massacre. He has a personal vendetta against whoever was behind it, which he strongly suspects is us...[...]

The movie has humerous moments, but it's also quite serious. [...] I hope it owes some of its popularity to the character of Herbert west. He's a fascinating, relentless pursuer of pure science, and people are intrigued by that. He's the kind of individual who just doesn't let anything or anyone get in his way. He's simply locked his emotions away in the persuit of total discipline.[...] Ultimatively, there's a sad side to Herbert. In one scene, Dan is in bed making love with this woman, and the camera cuts and you see that Herbert's watching them. It's kind of sad; he's just watching them quizuically, like, 'What is that intimacy there? I can't do that. I don't know what that is.'It's almost a black spot with him. But I on't know if people will even pity him, or feel pathos toward him. He's just so arrogant. But that's who he is. There's a reason people are arrogant, which is that somewhere down there, they were hurt so badly that they just turned the faucet off...."

aus: Fangoria Horror Spectacular#2

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